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1.
They Cracked This 250 Year-Old Code, And Found a Secret Society Inside (wired.com)
427 points by pstadler on Nov 17, 2012 | 36 comments
2.
The Year 2512 (antipope.org)
231 points by huetsch on Nov 17, 2012 | 89 comments
3.
Silk — Interactive generative art (weavesilk.com)
213 points by bawllz on Nov 17, 2012 | 69 comments
4.
Republicans Repudiate 40 Years of Tougher Copyright Laws (volokh.com)
184 points by gwright on Nov 17, 2012 | 92 comments
5.
Fast JVM launching without the hassle of persistent JVMs (github.com/flatland)
174 points by riffraff on Nov 17, 2012 | 45 comments
6.
Twitter's descent into the extractive (37signals.com)
152 points by zdw on Nov 17, 2012 | 49 comments
7.
NVD3 Erased From Existence (loopj.com)
140 points by foobar2k on Nov 17, 2012 | 69 comments
8.
Security Incident on FreeBSD Infrastructure (freebsd.org)
126 points by dous on Nov 17, 2012 | 34 comments
9.
Why I cycled a hundred miles to meet my first customer (cyclelove.net)
117 points by 3stripe on Nov 17, 2012 | 34 comments
10.
Maker of Airport Body Scanners Suspected of Falsifying Software Tests (wired.com)
112 points by uptown on Nov 17, 2012 | 40 comments
11.
Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night" (leanpub.com)
111 points by Swizec on Nov 17, 2012 | 70 comments
12.
Android 4.2: December month missing in calendar (code.google.com)
104 points by hendi_ on Nov 17, 2012 | 41 comments
13.
Show HN: I'm 15 years old, and I released my first NPM module: Wizardry (diy.github.com)
98 points by remixz on Nov 17, 2012 | 86 comments
14.
Crowding out OpenBSD (lwn.net)
98 points by Xyzodiac on Nov 17, 2012 | 57 comments
15.
Rewriting Reddit (2005) (aaronsw.com)
81 points by redDragon on Nov 17, 2012 | 35 comments
16.
Google Nexus 4 Actually Has an LTE Chip (ifixit.com)
78 points by crenk on Nov 17, 2012 | 14 comments
17.
First job platform exclusively for FOSS jobs (fossjobs.net)
69 points by mo on Nov 17, 2012 | 33 comments
18.
Ingress proves once again: Google gets its users (imtheirwebguy.com)
67 points by mtgx on Nov 17, 2012 | 27 comments
19.
My First Recommendation to New Scientific Coders: Learn Visualization (vincebuffalo.org)
66 points by nkurz on Nov 17, 2012 | 29 comments
20.
Z3 : An LLVM backed runtime for OCaml (raph-amiard.github.com)
61 points by Raphael_Amiard on Nov 17, 2012 | 19 comments
21.
42Floors Raises $5M, Expands Office Search Site To New York (techcrunch.com)
60 points by darrennix on Nov 17, 2012 | 20 comments
22.
WebSockets and WebGL used to create multiplayer shoot'em up (turbulenz.com)
55 points by jamesaustin on Nov 17, 2012 | 36 comments
23.
Tutorial: How to build your own peer-to-peer chat app (like Couple) (hipmob.com)
55 points by kunle on Nov 17, 2012 | 9 comments
24.
Trying to Keep Your E-Mails Secret When the C.I.A. Chief Couldn’t (nytimes.com)
52 points by 001sky on Nov 17, 2012 | 36 comments
25.
 Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 (arstechnica.com)
51 points by e1ven on Nov 17, 2012 | 57 comments
26.
Texas Instruments Cuts 1,700 Jobs and Winds Down Tablet Chips (nytimes.com)
49 points by luu on Nov 17, 2012 | 25 comments
27.
Show HN: ChargeBack.cc - Get your money back (chargeback.cc)
49 points by myotherthings on Nov 17, 2012 | 46 comments
28.
ImageShack uploader IP addresses visible (mikescoding.com)
45 points by eurodance on Nov 17, 2012 | 19 comments
29.
Spammers started to hit GitHub? (github.com/quartzjer)
44 points by bencevans on Nov 17, 2012 | 48 comments
30.
Apple’s stock price falls to lowest point in six months (arstechnica.com)
41 points by Quekster on Nov 17, 2012 | 49 comments

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